[bug-inetutils] Internationalized domain names teaser

[Marco d'Itri]

On Jan 08, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:

 >This post is intended to start discussion on how to properly support
 >IDNs on the GNU system.  Defining the API for a modified
 >gethostbyname() function that acts as a IDN enabled wrapper around the
 >normal gethostbyname() could be one outcome of the discussion.
Do not waste your time with gethostbyname(). Until a POSIX API will be
defined, a good easy solution would probably be to add a flag to
getaddrinfo().

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ciao,
Marco